The future of Silent Hill: Downpour developer Vatra Games became seriously uncertain this week, as parent company Kuju has confirmed that the studio has been placed “under review” in the wake of a rumor that Vatra is to be shuttered. However, Vatra’s fate hasn’t been sealed, yet anyway.

Kuju issued a statement on the matter, saying “The new management team at Kuju have been conducting a strategic review of all aspects of the business, as part of this process the on-going business activities of the Vatra studio are currently under review, however, at this stage no decisions have yet been made.”

If Vatra is shuttered, it won’t be undeserved, even if we don’t want to see these people lose their jobs. Silent Hill: Downpour received very mixed reviews, and worse, basically flopped, selling around 170,000 copies worldwide. Ouch. We’ll soon see if Vatra lives to make another game, but we won’t hold our breath.

The last side quest of Silent Hill: Downpour also has the biggest pay-off. This one requires a full playthrough before you can come back and give this lengthy quest a try. Completing this quest will reward you with a special secret ending, a worthwhile reward for any completionist. You’re already so close, might as well keep going to find out what that last special ending is. Below you’ll find our guide, as well as links to our text and video walkthrough, or to our complete side quests guide.

Games are quickly being recognized for the art that they are, and art itself is becoming a bigger part of the video game world. The delights of artistic achievements have always been showcased in Silent Hill, but finally you’ll get a chance to collect some missing masterpieces in a lengthy side quest. It won’t be easy finding all six missing treasures alone, let Game Front help you complete the collection with our in-depth guide below.

Starting Location: The Pearl Creek Art Gallery. Find the building south of the Centennial Building.Prerequisite: None, you can start collecting paintings before you find the Art Gallery.Best Starting Point: As soon as you find your first painting.

To start the quest, you’ll need to find the Gallery. It’s southwest of the Centennial Building, you’ll have to enter through the back alley door from Laymond Avenue. Search the basement to find the table with the missing paintings and begin the side quest.

Each painting, in order of your most likely time to find:

Despair: Across from the radio room in the Police Department, you can find the painting on the floor through a barricaded door.

Sunrise: Inside the booth of the Hillside underground entrance.

Wonder: During the Stolen Goods side quest, or just as you’re moving through the apartment building, look inside the kitchen for this painting on the wall of a ground floor apartment.

Certainty: North of the Pearl Creek subway entrance is a storage unit off of Laymond Avenue. To enter the unit, search the sidewalk for an item that reveals the code.

Hope: While travelling through Chastain Heights, enter the hardware store on the street east of the Monastery. Use the cash register to find a key to the back room, then move the backroom crate to find the painting.

Freedom: Just as you exit the Monastery, you’ll come out on a street off of Pleasant River. Look at the bend of the road ahead for a parked van. Open the back doors to find the painting inside.

Return to the Art Gallery and place all six paintings, then arrange them to form a picture. Then, use your UV Light to reveal a map.

With the treasure revealed, travel to Monroe Cemetery outside the Monastery. Search the crypts until you find an entrance. Down below, to unlock the crypt, you’ll need to solve a puzzle.

The puzzle clues vary depending on your puzzle difficulty, but to solve the puzzle, follow these instructions: upper left corner, center, lower left corner, lower right corner.

Ready to do some magic? Strangeness abounds in a weird half-finished ritual found in one of the many abandoned buildings of Silent Hill. Discover the hidden ritual locations all across the town of Silent Hill, where you’ll need to not only solve five puzzles, but also discover six fragments and five hidden spots with your UV light. It’s a complicated side quest that involves a long search, but your reward is uniquely weird. Learn all about how to solve this puzzle below, or check out our walkthrough and side quests guide in the links.

Starting Location: Inside the building on the northern border of Chastain Heights.Prerequisite: NoneBest Starting Point: As you reach Chastain Heights.

Entering the building will activate the side quest. Walk up to the large table and use your UV light to reveal five locations on the map. Below you’ll find locations and instructions for finding all five of the fragments.

Soul-Eye Fragment:

The first fragment is in the same building, just laying on the chair. Pick it up and look for a large symbol on the wall near a pedestal. Place the fragment on the pedestal, and use your UV light to shine on the wall symbol through the placed fragment.

Rotate the fragment in the pedestal until it matches with the wall symbol. Then shift your position to match the UV light shining onto the symbol on the wall. When the task is complete, the fragment will transform into a token. Collect it and continue your search.

Healing Fragment:

Find the second fragment in Pearl Creek, in the southeast corner of the map where Cook and Lansdale meet. When you find the fragment, take it into the part nearby.

Find the pedestal and place the fragment, then turn it to match one of the missing shapes this time. Then use your UV light to cast a shadow into the correct position.

A symbol will appear once you’re in the right position. Now, just copy the mirror image of the appearing shape, move to cast a shadow in the right position, then collect the token.

Enlightenment Fragment:

In Pearl Creek, find the fragment in the construction site. Take the fragment to the placing position in the subway entrance, and rotate the fragment to match the hidden shape.

Use the UV light to cast a shadow on the wall, move until the shadow matches the shape, then collect the token.

Four Fragment:

Back at Chastain Heights, near the side quest beginning location. With the fragment, enter the alley south and use the fragment to fill in the missing shape, then create a mirror image.

Use your UV light to match shadows, and collect your token.

Harmony Fragment:

For this last token, you’ll need two different fragments, both found in Pleasant River, on the King Harmony Drawbridge. When you find the bridge, use the ladder to enter the control room. Collect the fragment near the lever, then climb down and enter the office underneath the bridge. You’ll find it on top of a cardboard box.

The shadow symbol is beneath the bridge. Place the first harmony fragment, and replace two missing lines. With two lines replaced, place the second fragment and replace another line.

Now with every line replaced, create the mirror image with your shadow and collect the token. Return to the loft with your five tokens.

At the map, all you need to do is place all five tokens onto the corresponding positions on the map. Light all the candles to reveal symbols on the map. Then just match the token with the symbol. When all tokens are correctly placed, a Demon Statue will appear on the statue and the quest will be complete.

In Silent Hill, even the cops want you dead. A morbid cop car circles the streets of Hillside, and if you’re spotted, a group of nasty Screamers will attack. Put an end to the fuzz in Silent Hill: Downpour, the newest and most open of the Silent Hill games. This one features many special side quests scattered throughout the haunted town. Be sure to find them all with our walkthrough our side quest guide, found below in our large links.

Starting Location: Police cars in Hillside and the Police Station.Prerequisite: You must be spotted by a patrolling police car to start the quest.Best Starting Point: Just as you enter Hillside.

After arriving in Silent Hill, you’ll hear sirens off into the distance. Try to get near one of these cars as they move around the area on the roads. If you wait near the police station, a car will always eventually pass. A group of screamers will appear when you’re spotted, but it’s advisable you just run.

Once the quest begins, head to the police station. It’s a large square building. Inside, you’ll have have to cross a balance beam. Through there, you’ll find a chalkboard and a radio to use.

To call off the cars, you’ll need to use the clue on the chalkboard to recall the police cars with the radio. Enter these four numbers to call off the cars:

Welcome to the Silent Hill: Downpour side quests guide, where we give extensive details on completing each and every optional story. Side quests range from puzzles, to fetch quests, to combat, but either way they’ll provide you more insight into the fractured past of Silent Hill. Offering some of the most unique and captivating moments in the game, many of these quests consistently surprise and scare with unique challenges or just surreal executions. Buck up and prepare to wander waist deep through the rusty depths of Silent Hill: Downpour.

If you’re looking for extra help through the main campaign, or want to check out videos by Game Front’s own walkthrough team on Youtube, take a trip over to the Silent Hill: Downpour walkthrough page.

Look deeply into a mirror, and you might just notice some strange differences. Okay, that wouldn’t happen in reality, but in Silent Hill, all sorts of creepy stuff happens all the time! What do you expect? This deadly puzzle will punish mistakes but rewards eagle eyed players with a few handy items. Check out the full guide below with extra information and explanations for this mind-twisting puzzle.

Starting Location: The Port District, in a home west of the drawbridge.Prerequisite: NoneBest Starting Point: Just as you reach the Port District.

This quest is all a strange puzzle. Enter the home and walk into the furnishing living room to begin the quest.

Inside, there are five objects you can interact with. In the mirror, there is one difference. You’ll need to adjust your room to match the mirror image. Each time to move an object, the room will reset and you’ll need to change another object.

If the puzzle isn’t solved within a few minutes, an invisible monster will attack.

The room will go through five stages, resetting each time. Follow this order of actions to complete the quest.

Light up the lamp.

Open the drawer.

Switch on the television.

Adjust the portrait.

Light the candle.

With everything done, the mirror will break and reveal some rewards. The side quest is now complete.

The town of Silent Hill is a nasty place. As if the decrepit buildings and monsters weren’t enough, you’ve got crime to deal with too. Be a good neighbor and return stolen items to the residents of a pilfered apartment building, with a little help from the good samaritans at Game Front. Ignore the monsters for a few minutes, and nab yourself an easy achievement / trophy for your troubles.

Prerequisite: Find the apartment with a note, then interact with the bed to discover some hidden stolen items. That will begin the side quest.

Best Starting Point: Before entering the Centennial Building, you’ll move through an apartment building. Start here.

Read the note on the door to the right and open it. Turn left through the bathroom. Walk into the bedroom and pull the the bed frame away from the wall. Reach down and take the stolen items from the bin.

Leave this room and enter the apartment across the hall. Here you will drop off the locket on the coffee table and put the watch on the hand in the next room.

Leave this room and go downstairs to the second floor. Here you will go into an apartment that has a child’s bedroom in it. You will know it is correct when you see the baby’s mobile light spinning. Drop off the money holder on the nightstand with coins on it.

Go to the bottom floor and turn right down the hallway. Enter the first door on the left and go to the nightstand in this room. You will know you are in the correct room if it sounds like a warzone.

You can place the items in any order and you will get the achievement / trophy when you place the last item.

Cheating will get you killed in Silent Hill: Downpour, but one cheater got his worse than most. This poor soul’s heart was cut out and thrown into the sewer. If you want to lay the poor guy to rest, find the heart in the labyrinth of tunnels below the building and return it to him. It’s no easy job, as the twisting pathways of the expansive sewers will make your life a nightmare. Below you’ll find a guide to finding the heart and completing one of the many side quest in Silent Hill. For a full walkthrough or a complete guide to every side quest, check out our big links below.

Not everything is evil (and wet) in Silent Hill: Downpour. Scattered through the deadly town are bright red birds that are oddly timeless, and hold a greater mystery related to the main protagonist. Find all five Bird Cages and releases the chirping creatures within to uncover a special cutscene and resolve yet another in the long line of side quests in this expansive Silent Hill title. Check out full details for finding each of the collectibles below.

People go missing in Silent Hill everyday, and it isn’t just because of the monsters lurking around every corner. Sometimes kids get lost in more mundane ways. Help resolve a haunting riddle by retracing the steps of a lost child using our quick and simple side quest guide. If you’re looking for more help with Silent Hill: Downpour, check out the full walkthrough, or find even more side quest guides through our links below.

Long Walk, Short Pier (5 points / Bronze): Complete the “Ribbons” side quest.

Ribbons Side Quest Guide

Starting Location: Start by finding a Missing Children poster at the Lansdale / Cook intersection.Prerequisite: NoneBest Starting Point: Just as you arrive in Pearl Creek.

In Pearl Creek, find Lansdale Avenue and search the west side. You’ll find the missing persons’ poster on the side of a building. Read the poster and the side quest will officially start.

You’ll need to do some travelling and pick up a few items. First, follow Lansdale north and cross Brite Street. Look at the intersection nearby for a yellow ribbon tied around a lamp post. Read the note and follow the instructions to continue.

Basically, you need to travel to Pleasant River and walk along the docks north of the neighborhood homes. Run down the pier to find a key at the very edge.

Return to downtown Chastain Heights and search for the apartment building on Lamon Street. Enter the apartment building and run up the stairs, using the key on the front door to get inside. From there, find the Master Bedroom and collect the item at the foot of the bed to complete your quest.

Tired of walking everywhere yourself in Silent Hill? Travel with style by helping a homeless man with a few items. With every item given, he’ll open up fast travel options to another section of Silent Hill. It’s a long and arduous quest, but it’ll make 100% completion that much easier. If you’re looking to get back to old areas to complete side quests or want to uncover that final, secret ending, take a trip to the subways and be a good person. The rewards are worth it.

Go to the subway entrance on Laymond and enter the east steps. Squeeze between some barrels to find a man inside, talk to him to start the quest. There are multiple steps to this sidequest, and you’ll need to discover more items to complete it.

First he’ll ask for food. If you have money in your inventory, continue onward. Otherwise, you can pick up some change in the Movie Theater on Chastain Heights.

Leave the subway and move south down the street to fight a vending machine. Search the southern edge of Cook Street. If you don’t find it there, look at the Brite / Laymond Intersection, or in the alley south of Cook.

Use the money on the machine to buy the Homeless man a chocolate bar. Return to give him the item, and he’ll open up the Subway entrance to Hillside and make another request for a warm coat.

To find a coat, travel to Chastain Heights and enter the thrift store. Search near the cash register or the back room to find the coat, then return to the Homeless man to give him the item. He’ll then unlock the tunnels to Chastain Heights.

Lastly, he’ll request a fishing rod. Travel to Pleasant River and take a look around. On Easy Puzzle Difficulty, search the docks. On Normal, look in the water spillway off from the subway entrance. On Hard, look on the narrow boardwarlk east of the docks.

Travel back to the man and give him his item. He’ll open up the Subway entrances to the Port District and Pleasant River, making traveling Silent Hill much easier.

Even the dead need someplace safe to keep their stuff. Sadly, Silent Hill still has problems with bank robbers. Become a bandit and resolve this side quest by defeating five separate gangs of nasty enemies. It won’t be easy, but you’ll have plenty of ammo and a few weapons to stop the silent alarm. Grab some free First Aid Kits, a trophy or achievement, and inch that much closer to 100% completion. Check out the guide below.

Get ready to spread some ashes, because kindness is always rewarded in Silent Hill: Downpour. This quick and easy quest can be completed in a short amount of time with a minimum amount of effort. If you’re looking for a free Pistol, this is the quest for you. Otherwise, you’ll be reading mysterious notes while trying to complete one person’s last request to spread their ashes. For once, this fetch quest won’t take you all the way across Silent Hill — this one is just in their back yard. Below we’ll walk you through this quest, and if you’re looking for more walkthroughs for the main game or more side quest guides, you’ll find those in the big links. Happy rest!

Starting Location: Pleasant River, find a two-story home with an open front door.Prerequisite: NoneBest Starting Point: After completing the Monastery and you first enter Pleasant River.

First, enter the home and go upstairs. Enter the master bedroom and pick up the urn.

Next, you just need to scatter the ashes. Leave the home and turn left, heading toward the docks behind the houses. Find a longer pier behind the home.

On the left side of the pier, look for a bench. Interact with the bench and use the urn. As the ashes are spread, numbers will appear on the bench.

Remember those numbers, they’re the key to opening the safe back inside the home. You don’t need to open the safe, once the ashes are spread, the quest is complete. If you want to open the safe, you’ll find a Colt pistol as a reward.

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http://www.gamefront.com/silent-hill-downpour-the-gramophone-side-quest-guide/#commentsTue, 27 Mar 2012 01:38:28 +0000GameFront Staffhttp://www.gamefront.com/?p=159257Take a moment to relax with a murdered family and a vinyl record.

Many ghosts wander the homes of Silent Hill, anyone that met a bad end, anyone that’s running through psychological turmoil, or even just random pedestrians are all caught in the town. But, you can free a few of those lonely ghosts yourself in this quick side quest. Below, you’ll find our guide on completing this haunting chapter in Silent Hill: Downpour, but if you’re looking for more side quests or a full walkthrough, check out the big links below.

Starting Location: Chastain Heights, in the two story home across the street from the Theater.Prerequisite: NoneBest Starting Point: Just as you arrive in Chastain Heights.

To get inside the apartment building, you’ll need to find the raised ladder in an alley. Once you find the retractable ladder, look across the street for a hook. The hook weapon is a long narrow metal tool that can be difficult to spot from a distance.

Take the hook back to the ladder and interact to pull it down. Climb up and enter the apartment. Just as you enter, you’ll find the broken gramophone. To get it working, search the home for items.

Go upstairs and look in the children’s room, you’ll find the crank on a corner cabinet. The vinyl record is in the master bedroom, on the dresser.

Take both items back to the gramophone and turning the crank. Turn it forward once to listen to the record, then turn it backwards to watch the events unfold. Keep turning until the record stops.

The paintings will bleed and a ghostly murders will leave the painting to attack you. You can’t fight back, just run towards the husband’s painting and interact. Use the lighter to burn the painting and put the ghosts of the house to rest.